NasserAlazzawi We’ll never know but when you’re as busy as these guys are people can go a long time without talking or reading up about your friends in news.

Maybe, but Rock and the Smiths have known each other for ages and likely still run in the same circles. Heck, wild idea I know! but Rock might have even done some light research on the subjects of his jokes as he was writing his script for presenting the Oscars. I’m sure Rock is enough of a professional that he wouldn’t have just written an Oscar presenting show quickly on the back of a fag packet.

And again, the fact that he made a personal joke about Jada already in 2016 shows he must have been keeping tabs on her somehow.

      hugopal Maybe, but Rock and the Smiths have known each other for ages and likely still run in the same circles.

      Some amazing quotes in this thread.

        hugopal maybe.

        If he didn’t know it could also be because it’s ‘only’ Alopecia.

        If you run in the same circles but haven’t seen each other for ages, and it was something more sinister like Cancer, sure it would spread much more around those circles.

        When people like this catch up it can be too brief to get into things like that - people usually stick to the positives and what’s happening (or in their case, occasionally business). The average person will talk about negatives a lot but in these circles and especially where people work together it’s much more generally avoided in favour of being agreeable, positive and building each other up, building good rapport, celebrating successes. It’s how they fuel themselves in a world that is criticising them from armchairs.

        If someone turns up to an event like that otherwise looking healthy and laughing at jokes, and just appears to have changed their hair style then I could see how Chris could make a mistake.

        We never know what people know, and assumptions are the mother of all fuck ups.

            NasserAlazzawi If someone turns up to an event like that otherwise looking healthy and laughing at jokes, and just appears to have changed their hair style then I could see how Chris could make a mistake.

            I very much doubt Rock have just written that joke off the cuff in the evening - he’d have scripted it all beforehand.

                I’m surprised that some people believe it’s possible Rock made this joke out of ignorance of her condition.

                That is OBVIOUSLY not a possibility!!!

                Hello from your resident voice of reason, providing balanced perspectives to the armchair experts 😇

                What is amazing is that an award show for acting talents is being scrutinised to see whether people acted or not in this “incident”.

                There is no doubt, WWE is more believable in fact

                alistair summed up in one of the comments - “ The Guardian needs better commissioning editors.”

                  alistair “peak”? More like bottom of the barrel.

                  Though there have been plenty of contenders for such a title in recent years from that rag.

                    Smallman1 Hugo, have we reached peak BERK with you or is there plenty left in the tank?

                    I don’t know Smalls, you should probably look at the dashboard of your car and report back:

                      No one drains the life out of this place quite like Hugo, it’s almost a talent!

                      Entertained by the news outlets reporting on Chris Rock’s decline to file a police report. They went forward and completed their own “media” report and even provided backgrounds (stats of each “fighter”). This world we live in is boiling over.